The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Summer — from The Seasons
Languor by the water, in the heat of the year.
- Work
- Alphonse Mucha, The Seasons: Summer
- Artist / creator
- Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)
- Origin & date
- Paris (Champenois), 1896
- Held by
- Published Paris (Champenois)
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Summer reclines against a garland of red poppies, dipping her feet in a stream, heavy-lidded in the afternoon heat — the most sensuous of Mucha’s four seasons. Her dark hair falls loose, ripe fruit hangs above her, and the whole panel gives off the drowsy weight of a hot day with nothing to do. Where Spring is fresh and upright, Summer melts. Mucha’s genius was to make a cheap decorative print feel this luxurious, worked to the last poppy and curl; Parisians bought the Seasons by the thousand and framed them. The second panel in the cycle of the year, made for the wall of an ordinary home.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Published Paris (Champenois)’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
